more plain laid

adjective Ropemaking.

noting a rope laid right-handed with three left-handed strands, without a heart; hawser-laid.

Origin:
1885–90

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plain-laid

—*adj*
	(of a cable or rope) made of three strands twisted together from left to right

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More plain laid is always a great word to know.

So is interrobang. Does it mean:

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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